Need Art Appreciation suggestions

[A home for their hearts]

My dd13 told me she wanted to learn about Artists and the work, she would also like to learn more art skills. She's a self-taught drawer and does well drawing Magna. She wants something to help her progress in her skills. Is there a curriculum that would combine both? If not suggestions for both areas would be greatly appreciated!

[regentrude]

No advice on drawing. but for Art Appreciation, we enjoyed

Sister Wendy's Story of Painting and The Annotated Mona Lisa

Khan Academy has many short videos about specific works of Art:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history

[TarynB]

Have you looked at Artistic Pursuits? It goes through high school and teaches appreciation/history combined with the art skills each studied artist employed in their work. There's a link in my sig.

[TarynB]

For appreciation, there's also Smart Art: Learning to Classify and Critique Art.

[Penguin]

For appreciation, there's also Smart Art: Learning to Classify and Critique Art.

 

 

We really enjoyed this book this year.

 

For next year, I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Art in Focus. You will see that you can get it cheap if you can be content with the previous edition. Even the Teacher Edition is cheap. Glencoe is the publisher and Angelicum Academy uses this text for the middle grades.

 

 

I agree that the Annotated Mona Lisa is also very good.

[cintinative]

I like Artistic Pursuits but my kids are younger.

 

Have you seen this (below)? I have liked it for the art appreciation piece. It was free when I downloaded it. I used the code from here: http://moneysavingmom.com/2012/11/free-adventures-in-art-ecurriculum-75-value.html

http://www.cornerstonecurriculum.com/Curriculum/Art/art.htm

[cintinative]

Also check out some of the free sample pages from here: http://harmonyfinearts.org/sample-pages/